Cuff-holder



(No Model.)

CUFF HOLDER PatenfiedDec. 13, 1887.

N PETERS. Fhulo'l lllogvaphur, Washinglnn. DC.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES M. BOLTON, or sIOUX orrY, IOWA.

CUFF-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374.579, dated December 13, 1887.

Application filed August 16, 1857. Serial No. 247,108. No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. BOLTON, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Sioux City, in the county of Wood bury and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cuff-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

It is often difficult to connect a cuff-holder with a stiff cuff, because the part that is to pass through the button-holes is too large or cannot be readily adjusted to be pushed through between the stiff parallel edges of a buttonhole, and my object is to overcome such difficulty and to furnish cutfholders that can be readily applied to cnfls without bending or creasing and marring the appearance of polished and stiff cuffs.

My invention consists in the construction and combination of a cuff-holder and an adjustable fastening device for cuff-holders, as

hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, andillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a diagram of a blank cut from plate metal. Fig. 2 shows the plate bent in form as required to produce a spring-clasp and cuff-holder. Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing my cuff-holder in practical use.

a is a plate cut from sheet metal.

I) is aslot in one end portion of the plate.

a is a pin extended through a perforation in the plate and then fastened to the plate. Its pointed end is bent--in such a manner that it will project outward in the slot b when the plate is doubled, as clearly shown in Fig. 2.. The other end of the pin is formed into an eye or loop, d, as clearly shown in Fig. 3.

f is-a cotter or sliding key permanently connected with the loop (I. It is made by bending a piece of wire or metal strap double and applied by passing one end through the loop 01 and then soldering or otherwise joining the ends together to prevent it from slipping out of the loop. A lateral bend and groove, g, in

' one part of the doubled key admits the loop d and retains it in position relative to the complete device, as required when applied to a cuff for practical use.

To apply the device to a cuff, I slide the key into position, as shownin Fig. 2,passit through the coinciding button-holes of a cuff, and then slide the key into a horizontal position again. Reverse movements will unkey and free the device from the cuff.

To fasten a cuff to an overlapping sleeve with the cuff-holder, I simply place my forefinger under the cuff and cuff-holder and with my thumb then press down the slotted and upper portion of the plate a to uncover the point of the pin, so thatl can, by a continued pressure of the thumb in a forward direction,

press the point of the pin through the sleevelining, so that when the thumb-pressure is relaxed the slotted end of the plate will rise to its normal position to coverthe point of the pin, as required to retain it fast to the sleeve to prevent the sleeve and cuff from slipping relative to each other while worn byaperson.

I claim as my invention- 1. A cuff-holder comprising a plate bent double and provided with a slot in one of its ends, a pin fastened to the lower part of the doubled plate and bent into elbow shape to project forward in the slot of the upper part of the plate, and formed into an eye or loop on the under side of the double plate, and a cotter or sliding split key fastened to the said eye or loop, for the purposes stated.

2. A cuff-holder composed of aplate,a, having a slot, 1), a fixed pin, a, and fixed eye or loop 0?, and a slidingsplit or doubled key, f, substantially as shown and described.

JAMES M. BOLTON.

Witnesses:

S. E. SMITH, G. H. FoERsTERLINe. 

